In this position paper, CFFA comments on which resources could be accessed by the EU fleet in Liberia’s EEZ, on the need for more transparency and how the EU can positively contribute to Liberian fisheries governance.
10 priorities for the future of Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements
CFFA and six other European and African organisations and their networks publish a joint paper with recommendations to improve the sustainability of EU-African fishing arrangements, including transparency, compliance with European obligations, increased scientific knowledge and the rethinking of the financial support objectives.
Fisheries in Africa: Exclusive Economic Zones for which purpose?
This policy brief by Michel Morin analyses the paradox between the rights that African coastal States have over their EEZs according to UNCLOS and the low benefit they derive from them for their populations, particularly for food security and employment. The article shows that there is a structural weakness in the market of fishing rights which is explained by corruption and lack of transparency, and it concludes by the need for a change of governance in the management of African fisheries.
Women marching on!
Financial compensation, support for development and transparency, the key issues at stake in the negotiation of the EU-Madagascar SFPA
The Government of Madagascar has made it clear that it expects to derive greater benefits from its tuna resources through higher financial compensation. If this compensation is coupled with well-directed sectoral support for local fisheries, this could help develop Madagascar's small-scale fishing sector, which provides thousands of jobs and is essential for food security.
Traditional fishing or small-scale maritime fishing in Madagascar: a state of play
Local fisheries stakeholders react to the new EU-Seychelles SFPA and protocol
Amidst COVID-19 crisis, African artisanal fisheries are more than ever essential to feed the population
Contributing to the promotion of the women in fisheries livelihoods through SFPAs between EU and African countries
Mauritania: How the EU agreement can be used to improve fisheries management
As the EU is negotiating a new protocol under the existing agreement, concrete steps should be taken to ensure the sustainable exploitation of sardinella in the region, including increased sampling of small pelagic catches, applying the recommendations of the FAO working group and starting consultations with neighbouring countries on joint management of shared stocks.
CFFA and partners sign on to the Blue Manifesto to encourage the EU to become a global leader for healthy oceans
European industries must disinvest in West Africa’s booming fishmeal and fish oil sector
Is Blue Growth compatible with securing small scale fisheries ?
New IPCC-report on Climate Change and the State of Our Oceans: Will this expose the fallacy of Blue growthism?
The launch on Friday of the report on oceans by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is an opportunity to challenge the ecological credentials of the ‘blue growth’ concept. This dangerously claims that economic growth in ocean industries can be done in a sustainable way. However it is now urgent that this unproven claim is scrutinised, and alternatives to economic growth for ocean economies are given more serious attention.
How BP is drilling through one of the world’s largest deep-water coral reefs
Government transparency for ocean governance: Why the human rights based approach should be prioritised, not fighting IUU fishing
For small-scale fisheries organisations it is important that the international push for transparency is not dominated by anti-IUU campaigns. Poor information sharing between governments and small-scale fisheries affects a much wider set of issues relating to tenure rights and ensuring fair and sustainable access to fish.
